Neighbours • ziam + larry

Chapter 1

Zayn rummaged through his wardrobe, looking for a clean shirt to wear for the day, he had to be in school in about 10 minutes. He tossed his dirty shirts into the laundry as he went, and then finally picked up a white shirt that looked like it hadn’t been worn yet. He pulled it over his torso and picked up yesterday’s black jeans.  He really needed to get his washing done. His hair was still damp from his shower, so to save him time, which was running low, he tugged a beanie over it.

His phone buzzed from his bed, and he picked it up knowing it was a text from either Louis or Niall telling him to ‘hurry the fuck up’. He was right of course, but he didn’t think much of it, it was more or less the same every day. He decided on skipping breakfast, though Louis would kill him because he’s getting ‘too damn skinny’.

He left his house and went straight to his black motorbike, taking his helmet from under his seat and swinging his leg over the body of the sleek vehicle. He revved the engine to life, probably annoying all his neighbours, but that wasn’t really his problem. He drove the motorbike to school every day but that didn’t stop the prying, or sometimes wary looks people gave him.

‘Zayn!’ Niall greeted immediately, running up to him as soon as he had parked ‘Thank god, Louis’ driving me mad, because I couldn’t get his coffee’

‘Aw come on Niall, you know Lou needs his caffeine’ Zayn said, taking his helmet off and slotting it under the seat. It was something everyone knew about Louis, well if you knew him. If he didn’t get his caffeine in the morning he’d be cranky as shit. It was Nialls sworn duty to bring him that caffeine, and he did it without fail every morning, he lived right next to the shop and his uncle ran the place so he had no excuse not to.

‘But I had to leave really early this morning because of my stupid fucking flatmate, and the queue went on forever. I think you should just avoid Lou for a bit.’ Niall said, and Zayn nodded, smiling fondly at the weirdness of his two best friends. They spotted Louis several metres ahead of them, pushing past a younger kid, nearly toppling her over, with that murderous look about.

‘Okay, scratch that, get him out of here before he kills someone’ Niall said, with a hint of uneasiness.

‘Alright, I’ll see you in lesson, or probably not, but later on anyway’ Zayn said, with a quick wave, he then quickly walked up to Louis.

‘Louis, my man!’ Zayn said, feigning cheerfulness ‘How’s it going?’

‘There’s fucking people everywhere’ He grumbled, with that all too familiar frown etched on his face ‘Stop standing in the middle of the fucking corridor!’ He growled at a girl who barley came up to his shoulder.

‘Uh, we should go, like to the coffee shop, you know that one you really like near Milsbury?’ Zayn offered

‘And how do you plan on leaving this building?’ Louis asked with a hint of annoyance

‘Y’know, that hole we always use? At the back of the field?’

‘Oh yeah, the one that ripped my shirt apart?’ Louis said sarcastically

‘You weren’t crawling right’ Zayn snapped ‘Now hurry up, I don’t have all day for you’

Louis let out an annoyed huff, but let Zayn lead the way. They went to the back of the school, checked for teachers, then ducked out.

By the time they got to the coffee shop, they were a little less than tired ‘Order for me’ Louis said, going towards and empty table

‘Right’ He mumbled, going to the cashier

‘Hello, can I help you?’ The man asked, and Zayn shuffled awkwardly, taking a quick look at the menu.

‘Um, one black coffee, and one Caramel top latte’ Zayn said and the guy nodded, smiling brightly. After a quick wait, he was headed back to the table were Louis was waiting